So, Steven, I don't believe this is even a discussion among us. All I'll say is that you can't be serious. If you are, I'll kindly say, horse feathers. Aside at your thinly veiled attempt at character assassination to bolster your position, I'll only poke at one or two of the many holes in your position. (1) So, tell me, does a convert to Judaism instantly undergo a miraculous genetic mutation and racial transformation induced by the mystic waters of the mikvah? If so, that ranks up there with the parting of the Red Sea. Here in our community, the rabbi is converting an entire African-American family to Judaism. Do something genetic with that! And what of a Jew who converts to another religion? Another miraculous biological transformation? (2) As for those learned English judges who seemed to follow the path Halakha (the woman is the religious determinant since we know from whose womb a child comes while no one can be sure who is the father) because it was the easiest road to walk. What if the Jewish mother was a convert? More genetic miracles? And since when did "learned" jurists become paragons of biological science? According to you, their legal ruling had the scientific consequences of establishing physical laws of biology, making the Jews into a biological race. Funny thing happened earlier on the way to Auschwitz, their learned counterparts, as well as the bureaucrats in the Rassenamt, did the same thing in Nazi Germany. And, as a consequence, both I and my wife lost family both shot and buried during the "hidden Holocaust" in a field outside Bobrika in Galicia and Zhitomir in the Ukraine by the Einstatsgruppen and gassed and burned at the death factory of Auschwitz because of such bigoted, hateful tripe. There are more holes, huge gaps, in your assertion, but that's enough. I find this discussion distasteful, but necessary. If you want to continue it, bring it on.
Make it a good day. --Louis-- Louis Schmier http://www.therandomthoughts.com Department of History http://www.therandomthoughts.edublogs.org Valdosta State University Valdosta, Georgia 31698 /\ /\ /\ /\ (229-333-5947) /^\\/ \/ \ /\/\__/\ \/\ / \/ \_ \/ / \/ /\/ \ /\ //\/\/ /\ \__/__/_/\_\ \_/__\ /\"If you want to climb mountains,\ /\ _ / \ don't practice on mole hills" - --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=1816 or send a blank email to leave-1816-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
